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Littlestone
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Edited Sep 09, 2009, 22:23
Re: Votive offerings
Sep 09, 2009, 22:19
I can live without weekend pagans, thanks.


There is another aspect to all of this and that's the popularity of a site (ancient or otherwise). If you want to pray quietly, or be alone, you don't go St Paul's or Stonehenge on a Saturday afternoon. You'll get charged for the 'privilege' for a start, and then you'll be surrounded by hundreds of other people making a racket (and buying tat, not leaving it ;-) Places like St Paul's, Stonehenge, the Swallowhead and West Kennet Long Barrow are now so popular that there's no way it's ever going to be possible for those sites to cater to just one individual's needs or one sector of society's perception of how they should be.

Like it or not, St Paul's, Stonehenge, the Swallowhead and West Kennet Long Barrow are now tourist sites, and it's as impossible to say to the hundreds who visit St Paul's every day, 'be quiet and stop moving around so much' as it's possible to say to visitors to the Swallowhead or West Kennet, don't leave anything here and don't hold ceremonies here' - though a polite notice pointing out that things like candles may damage the structure, food can attract vermin and your activities (ceremonies) should not prevent others from entering the site, might help educate people towards seeing that there's more than one way to look at the world and that depositors and non-depositors alike have a duty of mutual respect towards one another.
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